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About Berry Petroleum Co.

Berry Petroleum Company, an independent energy company, engages in the production, development, acquisition, exploitation and exploration of crude oil and natural gas. The company has investments in cogeneration facilities, which provide steam required for the extraction of heavy oil and which generates electricity for sale.

The company focuses on the development of a resource base through developmental and step-out drilling, down-spacing, well completions, remedial work and by application of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods, and optimization technologies, as applicable. The company has six asset teams, including South Midway-Sunset (S. Midway), North Midway-Sunset, including diatomite (N. Midway), Permian, Uinta, E. Texas, and Piceance.

S. Midway: The company owns and operates properties in the South Midway-Sunset Field in the San Joaquin Valley. In 2009, it drilled 19 horizontal wells and 18 vertical producers at the South Midway-Sunset Field. The company owns the Poso Creek properties in the San Joaquin Valley.

N. Midway: In 2009, total proved reserves from the N. Midway diatomite asset were 35.3 MMBOE. During 2009, it drilled 51 diatomite wells and installed additional steam generation and water treating facilities. During 2009, the company initiated a four-pattern steam flood pilot on its McKittrick property.

Permian: In January 2010, the company entered into an agreement to acquire certain properties primarily in the Wolfberry trend in W. Texas from a private seller. As of December 31, 2009, the company estimated that the properties included total proved reserves of 11.2 MMBOE. The company has identified approximately 130 drilling locations on 40 acre spacing in the Wolfberry trend targeting the Spraberry, Dean, Wolfcamp and Strawn formations.

Uinta: The company owns the Brundage Canyon leasehold in Duchesne County, northeastern Utah, which consists of working interests in approximately 55,000 gross acres which include federal, tribal and private leases. It owns working interests in approximately 163,000 gross acres in the Lake Canyon project, which is located immediately west of its Brundage Canyon producing properties.

E. Texas: The company owns certain interests in natural gas producing properties in the E. Texas Cotton Valley on 4,500 net acres in Limestone and Harrison Counties. In Limestone County, the company is targeting 7 productive sands, including the Cotton Valley and Bossier sands at depths between 8,000 and 13,000 feet. In Harrison County, the company is targeting 5 productive sands and Haynesville Shale with average depths between 6,500 and 13,000 feet. During 2009, the company drilled 11 vertical wells in E. Texas.

Piceance: The company has 2 properties in the Piceance basin in Colorado targeting the Williams Fork section of the Mesaverde formation. It has a 62.5% working interest in 6,300 gross acres on its Garden Gulch property and a net operating working interest of 95% in 4,300 gross acres and a 5% non-operating working interest on 6,300 gross acres on its North Parachute Ranch property. During 2009, the company began a 20 well completion program testing new completion designs.

Steaming Operations

Cogeneration Steam Supply: As of December 31, 2009, approximately 48% of its proved reserves, or 112 million barrels, consisted of heavy crude oil produced from depths of approximately 2,000 feet. The company owns a 42 MW cogeneration facility which is located in Placerita.

The total annual average electrical generation of the companys 3 cogeneration facilities is approximately 92 MW, of which it consumes approximately 8 MW for use in its operations.

Dispositions

In 2009 the company sold its DJ basin assets and related hedges.

History

Berry Petroleum Company was founded in 1909.

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SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?

How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?

How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?

How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?

Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?

Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?

Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?

Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?

Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

What composes a threat of substitute products and services?

Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?

What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?

How big is the bargaining power of buyers?

How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

Tangible resources

Financial

Physical

Technological

Organizational

Intangible resources

Human

Innovation and Creativity

Reputation

Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are: